Machine for packaging candies or the like.



PATENTED AUG, 28, 1904 E. F. WIEDA. MACHINE FOR PACKAGING OANDIES OR THE LIKE.

APPLICATION IILBD NOV. 14, 1902.

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WlTNESSES:

PATENTED AUG. 23, 1904. E. F. W. WIEDA. I MACHINE FOR PACKAGING OANDIES OR THE LIKE.-

APPLIGA TION FILED NOV. 14, 1902.

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no MODEL.

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ATTORNEYS.

. APPLICATION TILED omy 1902.

PATENTED AUG. 23, 1904. a I E. F. WIBDA. I MACHINE FOR PACKAGING ozmmgs \OR' THE LIKE.

N0 MODEL.

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UNITE STAT S l-atented August28, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

'aans'r r. w. WIEDA, or PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.-

MACHIINEQFOR PACKAGING-CANNES OR THE LIKE.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. $68,103: dated August 23, 1904. I

I Application liled November 14, 1902. Serial No. 131,430. (No model.)

To (1 10710111, it vita y con/corn.- v

Be it known that 1,, Elmer F. W. Wilma, a citizen of the United States, residing in Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New ters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. This invention has for its object to provide a machine for packaging candies and other similar articles, so as not onlyto expedite the packaging and reduce'the cost of labor, but, which I view as of more importance, to eliminate the necessity for handling the goods.

in the case of certain classes ofv candies, &c

particularly such as chocolate orcream coated ones, the least handling very materially deteriorates them by destroying that gloss and-appearance of freshness which makes. them at-j; tractive to the customer.

The invention will be found fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein.

Figure 1 is a top plan view'ofone embodiment of a machine designed to accomplish the Fig. 2 is a side view of said machine, the front portion-thereof be.- ing broken away. Fig. 3 is a side view of that portion of the machine which is removed in Fig. 2. Fig. 4; is a rear view of the machine, and Figs. 5, ,6, and 7 illustrate certain details.

After the final step in the process of making candies and the like they are usually laid in series of rows on sheets of paper until they harden sufliciently. They are afterward individually taken from the sheets and packed by hand in a box, being disposed according to .the preferred way in. tiers, each tier being.

supported bya sheet of cardboard or the like.

My machine is designed to do the work of removing the candies or other articles from the sheets of paper on which'they are placed to harden, then dispose them on the sheets of cardboard which support them in the box in which they are finally packeth'andthen successively lay such sheets thus laden with the candies in the proper disposition in said box. To this end the sheets of paper on which the candies are placed to harden and whose course is indicated by the dash-linen in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings are laid on an endless apron b, which extends around rollers c and cl, which have their shafts e and f, respectively, jcur- 1 naled in the frame g of the machine. One

end of shaft e carries a ratchet-wheel 17b, and

the roller d is made adjustable relatively to the roller 0 by means of set-screws i, suitably mounted in the frame and taking against they I shaft f.

. On a shaft j, extending over the apron and journaled in the frame, are rigidly mounted near the edge portions of the apron 6 two pulleys k. t and m areother pairs of pulleys respectivel'y secured on shafts 1eand 0, the lat ter being rendered adjustable in a bracket p;

on the frame by means of set-screws q and;

the formercarrying a ratchet-wheel I' 1 s designates endless flexible devices, such as wires, which extend around the pulleys It, then parallel with the apron 0, around'the roller 0, then around the pulleys wig-then" around the pulleys l, and then around pairs of auxiliary pulleys if and a back to the pulleygg.

it, said wires being adapted by being maintained by the pulleys I: and' the rollerc close down to the apron b to hold. the papers whil move along" the path a securely and propen guidedas they advance with the apron ane also to deflect said papers out of the machine when they reach the point where they part with the candies.

'0' is an inclined plate down which the can-' I dies are. directed after leaving the apron.

w is an angle-iron which extends across the machinebetween the roller 0 and the adjacent edge of the plate c, said angle-iron serving to take the apron b and the wires s closeup to said edge of the. plate. The' top of the plate is-provided with a series of convergent ribs or walls a, the spacing between which is greater near the apron end of the plate than the other end thereof. These walls by their convergence tend to crowd the'caml es uniformly together; so that-by the time they leave the plate v they will be disposed in the :3 go uul i ugly shafts 16, so as ho advance 2:

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in *Lho drawings and as; above dr. .i l are illus'irnfisd but Biro wires in and do'ilfioting #ho papur on whio i ufirodncorl int-0 (1h dies rein; i'vl'ien huh it will be under 1'30 he linnied to ah 5.1 udor he pinto v i iuons holli 1 which mztomils over rollo and 1, ill?" 2 t 2 of the latter of which Carrie.) Wheel 3. This belt rilnpled to cardboard sheets on which the cam when finally poo-lied. Said sheeta 0 card-- board are introduced in he noon @he nia. and the hail from line point adjacent ahediuohm and of the lornier, the bolt using so that 1.5 thorenpon mores lilh cardho rd in ti fili'QCiLOYi d 1 coinonious tho which are formed .22. own, 3 grooves. 6 (ind Y are other as" vhizrh are formed and disposod the almr wi iin the forms? in such main rtlint they prudnca another raoowrw 8 the form of a: slot. tho casting 6 being eonred to the correspon' ing ranting land inside hf ivho name by huh .l, Whilo the casting is iihowiso smurod by moans of rods 10, )3? reduced ands ll. penetrate the oaslf and "7 mid threaded for the recent-.011 of nu i2. 'awoen ihe cizsting on the one hand inn castings 6 and 7 on the other hand :rro spam-o 13.. disposed'on the bolts 9- and rmluood portions 11 of the rods 10.

in the raceway b adapted more blocks i l, Wlnol'i nro flanged, an r- .o l -fOL them in piano, and 13} these. bl v y;

((1 naled the shafts 15 of LT, (seo Figs. 6. and '3'.) which comprise. in mldition parts 16. hem-Wire devices .3. i 'Ulitiii shaft. Each Shaft 16 in lo 1 1 :Ill.

1%.iminga pin or toe .9. wardly therefrom into way 5.

ting v 'th the! in :1. 'shzifs is 525 on the (ZzlSlJlI 3 l E which n IS in the direction of tho n2 rwvin The movements of the apron wires the hoh, wind the s l! are intormiliten' re mneously from aw groomed from monk-3 1- with said rod. said stirrup hooscillated from an oc-oorm'iu 2-35 on nsluil't through the medium of :1 nloul; 37, which slides in a. slot 32' in tho stirrup. The. shaft o'tod in the rzuuo and has :1. sloh-nud-pin onlowering; or doprossihle luhlo SUS- y n su mblo support; l3, which is ru -nt, tin np-mul-wlown movement of tho WllGlQ be 1;: controlled by :L rack 411, with which pinion iii, lormod fnsl- Will] a handle ll". 2*" oh. isfuicrumod the 'lrzunc engages. She tuck in formed \Yllill notches 4-7. vith hich is l-pptod r0 ongugr n nuwl lb, pn'olrd ho 29 lo be filled \vilwli tho czindivs is placod on the rulilo all, and us lard. as a shoot of ::-n' .ll m1rd 50. tilled with rundics 51, is doiivorod into the box the pawl ell) is rolounud from thor: (m and hue. lun'ullo l6 nnulo use of to lower tho table, so that tho pawl may llL ouggagod with the nextsuporiucunl. uol (l l. 'lllorvupon an mlditiouul shoot of c-m-dhuurd .32 is raid oror tho tior of uzndios just doposilud in "'1? box. so that they will not, he dumno'ud by 8 cardboard snpporl iwr the no" incoming:

1 china automatically stops, and this isoll'oclod m follows: On :1 {)Hllflll 53, which IS driven 10in pinion 53. arr. duionus 54.. which uro duptud to fiCLllzllG tho tlumvouli nloollzmism. lllustrniod in Figs. 1 and 55 is n bracket; in whiul'i is 'lulcrumod at. .71 lover 57, tho "iunw oud oi aha lovur living adapted to lw. 7 god by one oi ho dulvonlls 54-, while L-o (ruler end pivoted onoond ol :L lovor 58. .riu last-named lover onguggus in the groove lcshould he remarked lnitxtho )SC on tho shuit. Tho lhvor 58 in than, portion tlmrool which tho chm-h by hr." hot. 01, nnd it, is anally drawn outwzn'diy by tho clutch (ll), \v ii :h is i l nominally drawn outwardly by 1. swing on, uonnuc ii. (-lutch with an .-.unr-;iou 63 of (he shall. When tho lover 5% is forced inwardly. illni courso forces lvho clutch into operutivi'a orig: mom with tho dizzy, so that the rotary notion of the pulley "'d to said Hhnft. The iron 0nd 01" is unto @Kl, as :it (3 1-. to recon-"o war 55. rich in; rotod in n. bruoluzt w rel oi' the nuu'hino. .2 tho diroolion of IJO I discharging them front the machine.

4 down. the distance of one notch T to serve, as vertical dividing-walls betwe rssaos lever 58in itt innermost position, maintaining the cliltch in contact with the pulley.

The operation of the machine is as follows:

The sheets filled with the candies to be packed 5 are successively laid on the apron 7)., which,

with the coaction of the Wires v, roperly guides the candy-laden sheets up to the angle iron w, at which point the wires deflect the sheets downwardly around the roller, finally Just pro vionsly to the sheets leavi no the candles the lingers 1'7 interpose themselves and begin to act to advance the candiesalong the convergent ways between the walls :10 on theplate o. At

1 5 this point it should be remarked that the ways 5 and 8 the castings 4, 6, and 7 are of such relative shapes that at that portion in the movement of. the lingers-Where they approach and leave the candies they are caused to stand substantially vertical, so as to keep their ac- 5 formed-between the walls won the plate 0;

they are successively slipped oil? onto the sheet of cardboard winch is to support them in the box said sheet be ng caused to a 55W, vance with them by the belt 1 ll hen one 3 tier ot'candies has been deposited in the box,

one. of the detonts 54 engages the inner end of lever 5'4, tilting the latter, which in turn jolts lever 58. I Lever presses the flexible hahddevcrbo Ollliltl'tllfy, so that it disengages from the notch (l7 and permits thespring 62 to draiv the clutch 66 out of engage 311G118 with the pulley, thus stopping the ma-.

chine The operator then releases pawl 48 and by manipulating handle 46 lets the table Ther upcn after disposing an additional sheet of cardboard over the candiinsalready deposited in the box-the hand -lever 65, is forced inwardly into reengagcnicnt with the notch 67,

the operation is a repetitions? the, above described. i

The box &9 isinade with one sidewall removed, so as td accommodate the feeding in of 5 the articlcs.-- I 68, istherefore a statiouiu'y wall for automatically .feeding the sheets ct cardboard l'i'irining thepern'ianent supports for I 31KB uilt 'or i1. -1a.'ca,v1iorin ti; ll ta l sanvll a t r tr l I n fi ia'ble I am also perfecting a meet.

for feeding in stri'ps or' card board orthe like v the candiezzs; These .i will nn-ike the sable of it separ to application.

Having thus fully described in invention,

" what 1 claim asanmv, and desire secure by 5 Letters lfetentl isso to restartthc inachinew lh'om here on 1. In a machine for packaging candies or other similar articles on a portable supporting sheet or sheets, the combination of a frame,

" means for effecting the advance of such sheet or sheets, and means for depositing the articles on said sheet or sheets, substantially as described. I M

2; In a machine for packaging candies or other similar articles on a portable supporting sheet or sheets, the combination of a frame, means'for efiecting the edvance of such sheet or sheets, and means for successively depositing' the articles on said sheet or sheets dur-- ing the advance of the latter, substantially as described.v

3. In amachine for packaging candies or other similar articles, the combination of a frame, means for advancing the articles in so bstantially horizontal disposition, a sheetdikc support disposed horizontally under said articles, and meansv for advancing said support horizontally, substantially as described.

4. in a machine for packaging candles or other similar articles 'in tiers supported by sheets or cardboard or the like, the combination of a frame, means for advancing the articles in substantially horizontal disposition, and means for advancing the sheets tosupport said. articles in aplane disposed beneath the plane of advance of said articles, substan tially as described. I,

5. In a machine tor pac raging candies or other siniilar articles in tiers supported by sheets of cardboard orthe like, the combine:v

tion of a frame, a plate along which the articles to be packaged are adapted to be advanced, means, disposed under said plate for advancing the sheets ilorsu pporting the articles, said means being adapted to discharge in substantially the same direction that the articles are discharged from the plateaud asu'pport for the box in which said articles are to be packaged arranged at the discharge for said articles and sheets and movable vertically, substantially as described. 1

6. in amachine-forpackaging candies or other similar articles in tiers supported by sheets of cardboard or the like, the combination of afrarne, a plate along which the articles to be packaged are adapted to be advanced, means disposed under said plate for advancing the sheets for supporting the articles, said means being adapted to discharge m substancontinuous belt disposed under said plate and movable in the same direction with that in' which the articles advance on the plate, said belt being adapted to advance the sheets for supporting the packaged articles, and means for advancing the articles along said plate so as to successively discharge them. onto the sheets advanced by/the belt, substantially as described.

8. in a machine for removing candies or other articles from their temporary sheet-like supports onto the permanent sheet-like supports which sustain them when packaged, the combination of a frame, means for advancing said articles and their temporary sheet-like supports, means for separating the articles from said temporary supports, means fpr sustaining the articles after being separated from said supports, means for advancing the permanent sheet-like supports, and means for advancing the articles from said sustaining means onto said permanent supports, substantially as described. I

9. in a machine "for removing candies or other articles from their temporary sheet-like supports onto the permanent sheet-like supm ports which sustain them when packaged, the

combination of a frame, means for advancing said articles and their temporary sheet-like supports, means for separating the articlesfrom said temporary supports, a plate along which said articles are to be advanced after being separated from their temporarysupports, a continuous moving belt disposed under said plate and adapted to advance the permanent sheet-like supports, and means for advancing the articles along said plate onto said permanent support, substantially as described.

10. in machine for removing candies or other articles from their temporary sheet-like supports onto the permanent sheet-like supports which sustain them when packaged, the combination of a frame, means for advancing said articles and their temporary sheet-like supports, means for separating the articles from said temporary supports, a plate along which said articles are to be advanced after being separated from their temporarysupports, a continuous moving belt disposed under said plate and adapted to advance the permanent sheet-like supports, means for advancing the articles along said plate onto said permanent support, and a table for the box to receive said articles and their permanent supports, said table being movable vertically, substantially as described.

11. in a machine for removing candies or other articles from their temporary sheet-like supports onto the permanent sheet-like s'upports which sustain them when packaged, the combination of aframe, a continuous moving apron for advancing said articles and thetemperary sheetdike supports therefor, a plate t'or receiving the articleshaving one edge thereof proximating said apron, and means for deflecting said supports away from the articles at the point ofproximation of the plate and apron, substantially as described.

12. The combination of an endless horizontal traveling apron of flexible material and supports for holding the upper carrying stretch of said apron substantially fiat, the

support at the discharge end of said upper stretch of the apron being formed to present a relatively sharp edge and said apron being normally held close-fitting around said edge to thus have imparted thereto an abrupt bend, substantially as described. I

13. The combination of an endless horizon tal traveling apron of flexible material, means for supporting and advancing said apron, said means comprising a rotary part around whose periphery the apron extends and which is disposed at the discharge end of the upper stretch of the apron, another supporting means disposed between the apron and said rotary device and formed to-present a. relatively sharp edge to the apron, said apron being held close-fitting around said edge to thus have imparted thereto an abrupt bend, and a plate-like support having its receiving-surface substantially flush with the top stretch of the apron and one edgelthereof disposed close to the apron at the bend therein, substantially as described.

14. In a machine for packaging candies or othersimilar articles on a portable supporting sheet or sheets, the combination of a frame, an endless traveling belt having its upper stretch approximately horizontal and carrying said sheet or sheets, and means for depositing said articles on said sheet 01'' sheets, 1 substantially as described.

15. In a machine for packaging candies or other similar articles in tiers supported by tion of a frame, and means,-arranged in said frame, for successively depositing the sheets eachaladen with said articles in superposed disposition, substantially as described.

16/ In a-machine for-packaging candies or other similar articles in tiers supported by sheets of cardboard or the like, the combination of a frame, a, support in said frame for the box in which s'aid articles are'to be packaged, and means, arranged. in said frame, for successively depositing the sheets each laden with said articlesin superposed disposition in said box, substantially as described.

17. In a machine for packaging candies or' other similar amides in tiers supported by sheets of cardboard or the like, the combination of a frame, means for-depositingthe articles on the sheets which sustain them in tiers when packaged, and means for successively advancing said sheets. laden with said articles, into superposed disposition, substantially as described. 1

18. In a machine for packaging candies or other similar articles in tiers supported by sheets of cardboard or the like, the combina- IIO sheets of cardboard or the like, the combination of a frame, means for depositing the articles on the sheets which sustain them in tiers i N ovemher, 1902. when packaged, and means, coactive with said first-named means, for successively advancing said sheets, laden with said articles, into superposed disposition, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing 1 g have hereunto set my hand this 6th day of ERNST F. W. VVIEDA. Witnesses:

JOHN W. STEWARD, ALFRE GARTNER. 

